The Great War. Reflections, Experiences and Memories of German and Habsburg Jews (1914-1918)

issue8

Portrait of Italian Jewish Life (1800s-1930s)

issue7

Miscellanea

issue6

Travels to the "Holy Land": Perceptions, Representations and Narratives

issue5

Israelis and Palestinians Seeking, Building and Representing Peace. A Historical Appraisal

issue4

Memory and Forgetting among Jews from the Arab-Muslim Countries. Contested Narratives of a Shared Past

issue2

Modernity and the Cities of the Jews

issue1

Jews in Europe after the Shoah. Studies and Research Perspectives

Submission

The journal invites scholars to submit research articles for publication in its Focus section (see below). To submit an article please write to Dr. Laura Brazzo, Managing Editor of this journal, at the following email address: mail@quest-cdecjournal.it

Proposals for special issues, by aspiring Guest Editors, are also welcome.

If you wish to present a proposal as Guest Editor for a special issue, please send a short cv and a two-page description of the intended issue - illustrating scope, content and methodology - together with a list of possible articles and/or the names of potential contributors to Dr. Laura Brazzo, Managing Editor: mail@quest-cdecjournal.it

All articles, discussions and reviews submitted should be properly written in American English, adequate in style for an academic publication, and should respect the guidelines of this journal (see below).

If Authors who are not native speakers need to have their texts translated and/or edited, the journal can provide a list of professional editors and translators. Any expenses incurred in by Authors in connection to the editing and translation of their work will be borne by the Authors themselves.

Each text submitted should be a doc. or .rtf document, written in American English, doubled-space in 12-point Times New Roman; fully justified.

Guidelines for the various sections:

Focus

This section publishes exclusively research articles.

The Foucs section may be organized either as a special issues - a monographic project with a series of contributions revolving around a unifying topic or theme - or it may otherwise be miscellaneous in nature.

The monographic issues may be edited internally or entrusted to the care of external, Guest Editors.

Every article submitted to the Focus section will have to to be an unpublished, original work of scholarly research. The articles submitted will undergo a double blind peer-review process and will also be evaluated internally by the journal's Editors. Submissions can take place in any moment of the year.

The articles submitted to the Focus section should be sent in anonymous form (including footnotes and acknowledgements) so as to facilitate the double blind peer-review process. Full title and abstract (150 words) should be in the first page.

A cover letter should be also sent in the same email, with:

1) full tit
le of the article and full name of the Author(s), with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details, plus a short biographical note;

2) Author(s)’s statement confirming the agreement to the submission and that the article was not published before and is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.

Article length: articles should be between 30,000 and 60,000 signs (footnotes and spaces included).

Discussion

Discussions should offer an informed critical reading of an important cultural product, usually a relevant scholarly book (but it could be also a novel, an exhibition, a film etc.). The texts of the Discussion section should be between 15,000 and 30,000 signs (footnotes and spaces included).

Do not send unsolicited texts intended for this section. If you wish to propose a topic for the Discussion section first make sure you obtain approval from the Editors by sending a proposal explaining why you think the book (or other relevant cultural product) deserves to be discussed in this journal and why you believe to be suited for the task. Adress your proposal to Dr. Laura Brazzo, mail@quest-cdecjournal.it

Reviews

Each review should convey all essential information concerning the publication analyzed, presenting a synthetic description and a critical evaluation of the work under scrutiny. It should be aimed to a scholarly public.The texts of the Reviews section should be between 4.500 and 9,000 signs (spaces included).

Do not send unsolicited texts for this section.

Style guideline:

Preparation of Manuscripts

1. Double-space all copy—including notes and extracts. Section headings should be brief subtitles in bold. Quoted sentences of more than 50 words should be set off from the text without quotation marks as indented extracts.

2. Please follow The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed., 2010) for all matters of punctuation, capitalization, and quotation.

3. Text should be in Word; any illustrations must be tiff format.

Footnotes

In composing footnotes the following style should be observed:

Footnotes should be numbered using 1, 2, 3 (and so forth), and a
ppear at the bottom of each page.

The abbreviation “ibid.”refers to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding.

Ibid., 140-42.

2.Ibid.

Illustrations

All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), as either EPS (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi (b/w only). Photographs should be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. For electronic supply, files should be of either TIFF or EPS format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproduction of any illustrations, tables, and should supply copies of such along with the copyright transfer form.

Audio/Video

The use of audio/video documentation is welcome, the submitting author should discuss the possible use of such resources with the editorial board.

Style

American English spelling should be used throughout. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be used define them when first used. Obviuosly it is required to use non-racist, non-sexist language.

Punctuation

Use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes.

Date should be present in the form 1 May 1998.

Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD).